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CONTENTS LITERATURE 4 AMERICANA 40 HISTORY & CULTURE 56 GIFTS 82 cover, no. 87 left, no. 34 above, no. 102 INFORMATION
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 4 01SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. Le Petit Prince. New York, 1943. Small quarto, original salmon cloth, dust jacket. $12,500 “It Is Only With The Heart That One Can See Rightly; What Is Essential Is Invisible To The Eye” First edition in French of Saint-Exupery’s masterpiece, published the same year as the first in English. “Figuratively speaking, the tale has something of Hans Christian Andersen in it, something of Lewis Carroll, and even, it may be perhaps said, a bit of John Bunyan. It is often lyrical… sometimes profound… However it is classified, The Little Prince has entered children’s literature, in the manner of quite a few other such hard-to-define works in preceding centuries” (Pierpont Morgan 224). Le Petit Prince is “[a] gentle duet, [an] engaging exchange between two very different personalities who were, of course, both sides of Saint-Exupery: the disillusioned, skeptical and lonely pilot, and the innocent, otherworldly Little Prince” (Pearlman, 29). Published in salmon cloth and with no colophon on the final page. In first issue dust jacket, with publisher’s Fourth Avenue address on front flap. See Pearlman, Firsts 13:8, 22-29. Book with faint offsetting to endpapers, one small rub to front panel; scarce dust jacket with minor soiling, mostly to spine, and light wear to spine ends. A near-fine copy. LITERATURE
5 LITERATURE 02(RACKHAM, Arthur) DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London and Philadelphia, 1915. Large quarto, original full vellum gilt, custom slipcase. $9200 Signed Limited A Christmas Carol, One Of 525 Copies Beautifully Illustrated And Signed By Arthur Rackham Signed limited edition of the “Bible of Christmas,” one of only 525 copies signed by the illustrator, with 12 beautiful mounted color plates and 20 in-text line cuts by Rackham. “The Christmas gift-book proved an excellent market for Rackham. His sensitive and agile line earned him the appreciation of connoisseurs, while his care for the spirit of each text commended him alike to children and adults” (DNB). A Christmas Carol marks the first time Rackham illustrated Dickens’ work. Dickens’ Carol was first published in 1843 and “may readily be called the Bible of Christmas” (Eckel, 110). Without original silk ties. Latimore & Haskell, 44-45. Riall, 124. Bookplate. Plates and text fresh and clean, inner hinges expertly repaired, light rubbing to original boards.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 6 03PYNCHON, Thomas. Slow Learner. Boston and Toronto, 1984. Octavo, original white cloth, dust jacket. $23,500 First edition of Pynchon’s only collection of short stories, six works written early in his career, signed by him on the front free endpaper. Books signed by Pynchon are famously rare. The introduction to this collection, Pynchon’s only published autobiographical text, states that “these stories were written between 1958 and 1964. Four of them I wrote when I was in college-the fifth, “The Secret Integration” (1964), is more of a journeyman than an apprentice effort… It is only fair to warn even the most kindly disposed of readers that there are some mighty tiresome passages here, juvenile and delinquent too. At the same time, my best hope is that, pretentious, goofy and ill-considered as they get now and then, these stories will still be of use with all their flaws intact, as illustrative of typical problems in entry-level fiction, and cautionary about some practice which younger writers might wish to avoid.” Pynchon signed this book for Gail M. Sweeney, Pynchon’s friend and former housemate in both Manhattan Beach and Eureka, California between 1968-71, with whom he maintained a lengthy correspondence between early 1972-2006. Book with mild foxing to text block edges and cloth; bright dust jacket with very minor wear and slight toning to spine. An extremely good copy, most desirable signed by him. First Edition Of Slow Learner, Most Scarce Signed By Thomas Pynchon
7 LITERATURE 04GOLDMAN, William. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure. The ‘good parts’ version. New York, 1973. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $15,000 First edition of Goldman’s most popular book, his loving lampoon of swashbuckling fantasy, inscribed by him, “5 Nov 85 For J— P— Obviously a reader of taste and distinction. God bless. William Goldman,” and by three actors from the beloved movie, who have inscribed quotes from their characters: Mandy Patinkin (“’Hello my name is Inigo Montoya You killed my father prepare to die!’ Mandy Patinkin”), Billy Crystal (“’Have Fun Storming the Castle.’ Look who know’s so much! Billy Crystal aka Miracle Max —6-132002”) and Chris Sarandon (“’I’m swamped!’ Chris Sarandon aka Prince Humperdink”). Goldman satirizes the familiar fairy tale formula—”Fighting… Revenge… Beasts of All Natures and Descriptions”—in this book-within-a-book, a unique blend of slapstick comedy and wistful sentiment. Goldman also wrote the popular 1987 screen adaptation directed by Rob Reiner. With “First Edition” stated on copyright page. Fantasy and Horror 7-139. Fine condition. “Hello My Name Is Inigo Montoya You Killed My Father Prepare To Die!”: First Edition Of The Princess Bride, Inscribed By William Goldman And Actors Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon And Billy Crystal With Quotations From The Movie
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 8 “To Lillian, With Love And Great And Special Pleasure”: First Edition Of Salinger’s Franny And Zooey, Rare Presentation/Association Copy Inscribed By Him To Lillian Ross, New Yorker Staff Writer 05SALINGER, J.D. Franny and Zooey. Boston, 1961. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom chemise and clamshell box. $150,000
9 LITERATURE First edition of Salinger’s third book, presentation/ association copy, inscribed by him to his close friend Lillian Ross, staff writer at the New Yorker, “To Lillian, with love and great and special pleasure. Jerry Cornish, N.H. 7/29/61.” Inscribed copies of Salinger’s books are notoriously rare, and the close association this copy has with Salinger makes it particularly desirable. Salinger planned a series of stories on Franny, Zooey and the Glass family. “I’ve been waiting for them most of my life,” he wrote, “and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.” “Franny” originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1955; “Zooey” followed two years later. To John Updike, “Salinger’s conviction that our inner lives greatly matter peculiarly qualifies him to sing of an America where, for most of us, there seems little to do but to feel” (New York Times). Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. Salinger met Lillian Ross through New Yorker editor William Shawn, to whom Salinger dedicated Franny and Zooey. Out of Shawn’s faith in Salinger’s work—Shawn would publish 13 Salinger stories between 1946 and 1965—grew a great and close friendship, one Shawn shared with Ross in 1957 when she sought to send Salinger a letter in praise of “Zooey.” The two traded fan letters—her letter on “Zooey” led to Salinger’s on her Hemingway profile—inaugurating a friendship that lasted through many publications by each author, occasional dinners and family visits, and many epistolary exchanges for decades on topics literary, professional and personal. In 1965, Salinger wrote a 3-page legal affidavit supporting Ross’ efforts to adopt a child; both Salinger and Shawn were co-godfathers to Erik, the son she adopted. In her memoir Here But Not Here, Ross writes of her working life and love life with Shawn: “When it comes to writing, along with what Bill taught me, I’ve learned the most from Salinger. He’s one of the best we’ve ever had.” She noted that “Of all the scores of writers Bill dealt with over the years, including some that were old friends, only Salinger would go out of his way to be helpful to Bill without asking for anything in return. Ross wrote to Salinger to thank him for this inscribed copy: “I’ve been carrying the book all over town with me since it arrived this morning. It’s perfect, naturally, inside and out… The jacket looks terrific—there’s no way of talking about it; it’s too good. What you say on it should hold a lot of people up for a long time, even if ‘distinguished’ fellows here and there try to put a little carbon monoxide back into the fresh air. I cherish the inscription. In fact, things are looking up all over, it makes it seem, now that the book is here. I’m going to read it backwards. Thank you and bless you and Love, Lillian.” Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. Bixby A4a. Starosciak A40. Bruccoli & Clark I:315. Book and jacket with very mild toning to extremities, jacket with a bit of soiling to rear panel. Near-fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 10 06JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris, 1922. Quarto, original blue paper wrappers. $52,000 First edition of the novel that changed the path of modern literature, one of only 750 numbered copies on handmade paper, in the now-iconic original paper wrappers. “The novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times” (Grolier Joyce 69). After working seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris. “Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922… Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways” (de Grazia, 27). Of the 1000 copies of the first edition, 100 copies were printed on Holland paper and were signed by Joyce, 150 copies were printed on vergé d’Arches paper, and the other 750 copies, numbered 251 to 1000, were printed on slightly less costly handmade paper, as here. Slocum A17. Interior fine, notoriously fragile original wrappers with minor restoration at spine ends, a few creases. An exceptionally attractive copy. “The Most Influential Work Of Modern Times”: First Edition Of Ulysses, In Original Wrappers
11 LITERATURE “Humptydump Dublin Squeaks Through His Norse Humptydump Dublin Hath A Horrible Vorse And With All His KinksEnglish Plus His Irismanx Brogues Humptydump Dublin’s Grandada Of All Rogues” 07JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris and New York, 1930. Slim folio, original printed paper wraps, glassine, gilt chemise, ,custom chemise and clamshell box. $17,500 First edition, one of only 100 signed copies on “Imperial Hand-Made Iridescent Japan” paper, out of a total edition of 685 copies. A stunning copy. This is one of several fragments from Work in Progress (published in 1939 as Finnegans Wake) that Joyce issued to raise money while working on the mammoth project. One of the publishers, Jack Kahane, had originally asked Sylvia Beach to allow him to take over publication of Ulysses. Instead, she introduced Kahane to Joyce, who then agreed to let him publish Haveth Childers Everywhere. The effort nearly ruined Kahane, and only by selling the American rights to the work were he and co-publisher Henry Babou able to save themselves from bankruptcy. Slocum and Cahoon A41. A beautiful, fine copy, in a slightly worn slipcase. Rare First Edition Of Joyce’s First Book, One Of As Few As 50 Copies Of The First Issue 08JOYCE, James. Chamber Music. London, 1907. Small slim octavo, original green cloth, custom clamshell box. $8000 First edition of Joyce’s first book, rare first issue, one of as few as 50 to 100 copies (from an entire edition of 509 copies). Joyce considered Chamber Music to be a memorial of his youth, calling it in a letter to his brother “a young man’s book. I felt like that. It is not a book of love-verses at all, I perceive. But some of them are pretty enough to be put to music. I hope someone will do so… they are not pretentious and have a certain grace. I will keep a copy myself and (so far as I can remember) at the top of each page I will put an address, or a street so that when I open the book I can revisit the places where I wrote the different songs” (Ellmann, 232). First state, with thick laid endpapers with horizontal chain lines and signature C well centered on the page. It has been suggested that there were as few as 50 to 100 copies issued in the first state; all contemporary presentation copies are in this state. Text with a few tiny spots, light offsetting to pastedowns; original cloth with very minor wear to spine ends and corners, minor soiling to rear panel. A near-fine copy of this rare first edition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 12 “The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For” 09HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $6500 First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in firstissue dust jacket. “This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of American literature… Hemingway has struck universal chords, and he has struck them vibrantly” (J. Donald Adams). First issue, with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket without photographer’s name. Hanneman A18a. Book in fine condition, in a bright, near-fine dust jacket with slight wear to extremities. An attractive copy. “If It Isn’t Enjoyable—Why Do It?”: Splendid First Edition Of Hemingway’s To Have And Have Not 10HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York, 1937. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $5500 First edition, first issue of Hemingway’s first novel since A Farewell to Arms, basis for the Howard Hawks film co-scripted by Faulkner and featuring Bogart and Bacall together for the first time—a very handsome copy. This novel, Hemingway’s first since A Farewell to Arms was published eight years earlier, follows the life and adventures of Harry Morgan from rum-running to revolution. Brimming with criticism directed at American capitalism and the bureaucracy of the Roosevelt administration, the novel explores social circumstances and situations in Key West, “that paradise of the ‘haves’ and purgatory of the ‘have nots.” “In To Have and Have Not, Hemingway for the first time showed an interest in a possible solution of social problems through collective action” (Hart, 327). Grissom A.14.1.a. Book in fine condition, in a near-fine dust jacket with minor edge wear, slightly more noticeable to outer front edge and foot of spine. A bright, appealing copy.
13 LITERATURE “The Past Is Not A Diminishing Road But, Instead, A Huge Meadow Which No Winter Ever Quite Touches…” 11FAULKNER, William. These 13. New York, 1931. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust jacket. $4200 First trade edition, first issue, of the first published collection of Faulkner’s stories. This remarkable collection, published two years after The Sound and the Fury, contains several of Faulkner’s best known and most admired short stories, including “A Rose for Emily,” “That Evening Sun,” and “Dry September.” Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition. First issue, with error on contents page (“280” for “208”). Book very nearly fine, dust jacket near-fine with only minor wear and toning to extremities. A handsome, near-fine copy. “Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins”: First Edition Of Lolita, 1955 12NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris, 1955. Two volumes. Small octavo, original green paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $10,800 First edition, first issue of one of the most famous and controversial novels of the 20th century. “Brilliant… One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year” (New York Times). The saga of Lolita began well before its publication in 1955. A number of American publishers rejected it for fear of negative repercussions if they published such a “pornographic” work. When the Olympia Press in Paris finally issued the book, its first edition sold out quickly in Europe. It was not as warmly received abroad: the British government pressured the French to ban the novel, and no American edition saw print until 1958. First issue, with the price of “Francs: 900” on the rear wrappers (brisk sales spurred the publisher to raise the price later to 1200 francs). Volume I wrappers showing light edge rubbing and a few small spots of soiling. A lovely copy in near-fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 14 13O’CONNOR, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. New York, 1955. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $19,500 First edition, first state, of O’Connor’s famed first collection of short stories, her second published book, in first-issue dust jacket, signed by her. These ten stories—ranked by many readers as some of O’Connor’s strongest work and consistently lauded as masterfully crafted classics of modern American short fiction—take place in a rural South “that somehow hovers outside of time, where both the New Deal and the New Testament feel like recent history. It’s soaked in violence and humor, in sin and in God… a land haunted by Christ… [Many people] are in turn haunted by O’Connor. Her doctrinally strict, mordantly funny stories and novels are as close to perfect as writing gets” (New York Times). First-state book with “tyring” on page 125, in first-issue dust jacket with reviews for Wise Blood on rear panel. Farmer A.2.I.a.1. Book with slight label residue to inscription page, top corners bumped; priceclipped dust jacket with mild wear, toning to spine, very shallow chipping to spine and corners, and one tape repair to verso. An extremely good signed copy. “As Close To Perfect As Writing Gets”: First Edition Of Flannery O’Connor’s First Short Story Collection, Signed By Her
15 LITERATURE “The Greatest English Novels Of This Century” 15MANTEL, Hilary. Wolf Hall. WITH: Bring Up the Bodies. WITH: The Mirror and the Light. London, 2009, 2012, 2020. Together, three volumes. Thick octavo, original black and blue cloth, dust jackets. $5200 First trade editions of Mantel’s acclaimed historical trilogy, each book signed by the author. An “arch, elegant, richly detailed biographical novel centered on [Thomas] Cromwell… Mantel can see the understated heroism in the skilled administrator’s day-to-day decisions in service of a well-ordered civil society… Wolf Hall is both spellbinding and believable” (New York Times). “With this trilogy, Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of; she has given it muscle and sinew, enlarged its scope, and created a prose style that is lyrical and colloquial, at once faithful to its time and entirely recognisable to us. Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century” (Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian). The first two novels each won the prestigious Man Booker Prize, and the final book was longlisted; in the award’s history, “no one had won with a sequel, and no one had won so soon after winning the first time” (New York Times). Fine copies. “The Dead Are A Heap More Trouble Than The Living” 14O’CONNOR, Flannery. The Complete Stories. New York, 1971. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $800 First edition of O’Connor’s complete short fiction. O’Connor, widely regarded as “at least the equal of any American writer of short stories” (Books of the Century, 519), created tales marked by “the macabre and the darkly, crazily ecstatic” (Stringer, 503). O’Connor believed “a story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning” (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose). “She saw herself as ‘a Catholic peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness’ and saw the South as ‘Christ-haunted’” (New Yorker). “Today, Flannery [O’Connor] is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists, short-story writers and Catholic apologists of the 20th century” (National Catholic Register). Book very nearly fine with a tiny bit of staining to text block fore-edge; dust jacket fine. A beautiful copy, unusual in this condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 16 16BALDWIN, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. New York, 1953. Octavo, original rust cloth, original dust jacket. $9800 “A Modern Classic Of African American Literature”: First Edition Of James Baldwin’s First Novel, Go Tell It On The Mountain First edition of James Baldwin’s influential, semi-autobiographical first novel—”a beautiful, furious novel”—especially scarce in the original dust jacket. “Go Tell It on the Mountain, Baldwin’s first book and first novel, published in 1953, was widely praised. Partly autobiographical… Baldwin said in 1985 that in many ways the book remained the keystone of his career. ‘Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else,’ he said. ‘I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal, above all, with my father. He was my model. I learned a lot from him. Nobody’s ever frightened me since’” (New York Times). The novel is widely considered his “most fully crafted piece of fiction and by many accounts his best” (African American Writers, 3). A “beautiful, furious first novel,” Go Tell It on the Mountain has been acclaimed “a modern classic of African American literature” (Stringer, 40). “First Edition” stated on copyright page. Blockson 5363. Bookplate. Book fine, bright dust jacket extremely good with mild rubbing to extremities, a bit of toning to spine, closed tear along top edge of front panel, small stain to rear panel. An excellent copy.
17 LITERATURE 17RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York, 1957. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase and chemise. $42,000 First edition, inscribed two months before publication: “To Hans—to show you a more romantic view of business and businessmen—as my form of the following toast: ‘To the greatness of America—and to hell with Europe!’ Affectionately, Ayn. August 20, 1957.” “From 1943 until its publication in 1957, [Rand] worked on the book that many say is her masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged. This novel describes how a genius named John Galt grows weary of supporting a society of ungrateful parasites and one day simply shrugs and walks away. He becomes an inspiration to like-minded men and women, all of whom eventually follow his example, until society, in its agony, calls them back to responsibility and respect” (ANB). Businessman Hans Hirschfeld was the husband of Florence Blumenthal, oldest sister of Nathaniel Branden. Rand considered Branden to be her “intellectual heir” and she dedicated Atlas Shrugged to him and to her husband, Frank O’Connor. Rand’s intense philosophical and personal relationship with the young Branden became a sexual relationship as well in 1954. It was Blumenthal who introduced Branden to Rand’s work. The Branden-Rand relationship ended in 1968 after Rand discovered Branden’s affair with the woman who became his second wife. Rand irrevocably and publicly “excommunicated” Branden from Objectivism. Blumenthal was the only one of Branden’s sisters to subsequently take his side against Rand at the time of the break. Minor restoration to rear inner paper hinge; text and cloth nearly fine. Minor restoration to bright, beautiful dust jacket. A remarkable pre-publication presentation copy. “To Show You A More Romantic View Of Business… To The Greatness Of America And To Hell With Europe!”
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 18 “A Talent Equal To William Faulkner” 18MCCARTHY, Cormac. Child of God. New York, 1973. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $3500 First edition of Pulitzer Prize-winner McCarthy’s third novel, his powerful “statement about cruelty, isolation, inhumanity.” “McCarthy must be acknowledged as a talent equal to William Faulkner,” writes Madison Smartt Bell. “Yet, more than Faulkner ever did, McCarthy seems to be pulling language apart at its roots.” McCarthy’s third novel, described as an unforgettable “statement about cruelty, isolation, inhumanity,” confirms his status as an artist whose “project is unlike that of any other writer” (New York Times). “If Child of God spoke to the late 20th century’s burgeoning interest in serial killers, it now proffers the prehistory of incel rage” (John Pistelli). Basis for the 2013 film directed by James Franco, starring Scott Haze. “First Edition” stated on copyright page: with 1973 copyright, released in early January 1974. Without remainder mark often found on copies of this book. Book with slight rubbing to spine gilt, beautiful dust jacket with only minor traces of wear. An about-fine copy. “Morality Whetting Its Scythe Behind Every Line” 19MCCARTHY, Cormac. Outer Dark. New York, 1968. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $4200 First edition, first printing, of McCarthy’s second book, his “profound parable” of fate’s dark workings. “You can hear mortality whetting its scythe behind every line” (New York Times). Upon McCarthy’s publication of his second novel, Time noted that the author had “developed into an exceptional talent” with this “profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time.” Life praised the novel as “a minor classic.” McCarthy ultimately achieved not only critical but also popular acclaim nearly a quarter century after the publication of this early work, winning both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer in the 1990s. Book with slight rubbing to spine, very faint toning to edges; dust jacket with a few tape repairs to verso. A near-fine copy.
19 LITERATURE “A Landmark Volume In Modern American Poetry” 20STEVENS, Wallace. Harmonium. New York, 1923. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $3800 First edition of Wallace Stevens’ first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies in the rare first binding. Although Stevens had been publishing poems in magazines for almost ten years, Harmonium, published when he was 44 years old, was his first collection. Harmonium includes some of Stevens’ most famous poems, such as “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Ploughing on Sunday,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” “Sunday Morning” and “The Snow Man.” “Harmonium is a landmark volume in modern American poetry… ‘The poet’s subject is his sense of the world,’ Stevens once wrote…he believed in the ultimate value of imagination, in the ability of the imagination to transform reality” (Hamilton, 520). First issue, with red top edge. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Edelstein A1a-1. Text very clean, gentle toning and slight rubbing to edges of bright boards. An attractive copy in the uncommon first binding. “As I Was, Or Might Have Been”: First Edition Of The Map Of Love, Signed And Twice Inscribed By Dylan Thomas 21THOMAS, Dylan. The Map of Love. Verse and Prose. London, 1939. Octavo, original purple cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $8800 First edition in book form, twice inscribed by Thomas, once beneath the frontispiece portrait by Augustus John: “As I was, or might have been, to Norman Unger from [line pointing at name beneath portrait],” and a second time on the front free endpaper: “ Norman Unger. Dylan Thomas 1950.” Among the works included in this collection of poems and lyrical prose, which had all appeared in periodicals and which here make up Thomas’s third book, are “When all my Five and Country Senses see,” “After the Funeral,” “Not from this Anger,” and “The Mouse and the Woman.” First issue, in fine-grained purple cloth with “Dent” blind-stamped on spine. Maud, 5. Norman Unger, the inscribee of this copy, was one of the great collectors of modern first editions in the mid-20th century; Thomas inscribed a copy of his Twenty-Five Poems “To Norman Unger, my only collector.” Minor soiling to spine of price-clipped dust jacket, otherwise fine. A wonderful inscribed copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 20 “A Peak Of English Poetry”: First Edition Of The Winding Stair, Signed By Yeats 22YEATS, William Butler. The Winding Stair. New York, 1929. Octavo, original gilt-stamped dark blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $4500 Signed limited first edition, one of only 642 copies, signed on the half title by Yeats. The Winding Stair, along with The Tower (published in 1928), contains “the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner… a peak in English poetry” (Connolly 56B). “Many critics have felt that Yeats’ greatest achievement was the development of a symbolic language to express an equilibrium between the conflicting demands on the poet of the outside world and his art… This theme is central to the two volumes which are often thought to be Yeats’ best, The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair (1929)” (Hamilton, 595). Both titles refer to Thoor Ballylee, the Norman tower that Yeats purchased, restored and dedicated to his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. The Winding Stair includes one of Yeats’ most resonant and bestknown poems, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul.” Without scarce original glassine and slipcase. An about-fine copy with very faint discoloration to boards. “Who, If I Cried Out, Would Hear Me Among The Angels’ Hierarchies?” 23RILKE, Rainer Maria. Duineser Elegien. Leipzig, 1923. Tall quarto, publisher’s full green crushed morocco gilt, custom clamshell box. $5000 Deluxe limited large-paper first edition, one of only 300 copies, this copy one of the first 100 copies specially bound at the Wiener Werkstadt. Rilke spent the winter of 1911-12 at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea as a guest of his friend Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe. “With this work as well as his Orphean Sonnets, Rilke “felt that he had fulfilled the demand made on him by his genius… Beyond all doubt is his standing as one of the great poets of the 20th century” (Garland, 753). Text in German. Without original plain paper dust jacket and cardboard slipcase, often not present. Text fine, inner hinges starting, original deluxe binding with one faint scratch to rear board, very mild toning to spine. A near-0fine copy.
21 LITERATURE “I Have Been One Acquainted With The Night” 24FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. New York, 1928. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition, first issue, of Frost’s fifth collection of verse, widely hailed as one of his greatest, boldly signed by the poet: “Robert Frost Wesleyan 1929.” In addition to the title poem, this volume contains “Acquainted with the Night,” “Spring Pools, “Tree at My Window” and “Once by the Pacific,” among others. With four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. “Welford D. Taylor, a prominent Lankes scholar, describes the appreciation that the poet and the printmaker had for each other’s work: ‘What had impressed each man was a recognition of the aesthetic and thematic values he shared with the other—a “coincidence of taste,” as Frost put it. Both based much of their work on rural subjects, employed understatement and symbol and explored the question of human significance in the over-all scheme of nature” (Vanderbilt University). Book fine; scarce original dust just with shallow chipping to spine ends, a few short closed tears, mild toning to spine, two tiny holes to rear flap seam. A near-fine signed copy. Robert Frost’s New Hampshire, Inscribed By Him With A Poem From The Book 25FROST, Robert. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York, 1924. Octavo, original half green cloth, custom clamshell box. $6000 First edition, third printing, issued a year after the first printing, inscribed by Frost with lines from the poem “I Will Sing You One-O”: “The clock struck one/ In that grave one/ They spoke of the sun/ And moon and stars/ Saturn and Mars/ And Jupiter/ x x x x x/ Their solemn peals/ Were not their own/ They spoke for the clock/ With whose vast wheels/ Theirs interlock/ Robert Frost/ For Edwin T. Bowden Jr.’’. New Hampshire contains a number of Frost’s most famous poems: “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” Frost, who lived much of his life in New Hampshire, said that he wrote the title poem in one night. Without original dust jacket. Interior fine, cloth with light wear, mainly to corners. A near-fine inscribed copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 22 “A King-Hell Bitch Of A Year” 26THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72. San Francisco, 1973. Octavo, original black boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $11,000 First edition, in first-issue dust jacket, of Thompson’s “bizarrely irreverent” account of the 1972 presidential campaign. Boldly signed by Thompson and inscribed by the illustrator in bright red ink, “Erik from Ralph Steadman 24.10.92.” Thompson first reached a wide audience with this, his third book. Thompson’s coverage of the NixonMcGovern 1972 presidential campaign “forced mainstream news organizations to take notice. That year, some of his most acerbic lines were quoted in publications like Newsweek and The New York Times” (New York Times). Book about-fine, dust jacket extremely good with light wear to extremities. “We Were Somewhere Around Barstow On The Edge Of The Desert When The Drugs Began To Take Hold” 27THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York, 1971. Octavo, original half-black cloth, dust jacket. $2000 First edition of Thompson’s landmark picaresque journey into the American dream. “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas… cemented Thompson’s place as a singular presence in American journalism or, as he once called himself, ‘a connoisseur of edge work’” (New York Times). Thompson’s second book, the embodiment of Gonzo journalism, “is a custom-crafted study of paranoia, a spew from the 1960s and—in all its hysteria, insolence, insult, and rot—a desperate and important book, a wired nightmare, the funniest piece of American prose since Naked Lunch” (Books of the Century, 27880). In 1998, Terry Gilliam directed the film version, starring Johnny Depp. With in-text illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Very slight toning to book edges and light spotting to upper text block edge; dust jacket vibrant. A nearly fine copy.
23 LITERATURE “Mankind Wasn’t Alway So Lucky”: First Edition Of Vonnegut’s The Sirens Of Titan 29VONNEGUT, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. Boston, 1961. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6500 First edition in cloth of Kurt Vonnegut’s influential second book, one of 2500 copies. “The Sirens of Titan is a fine complex satire about the folly of mistaking good luck for the favour of God; it features the first of a number of mock-religions that Vonnegut would invent— the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent—and concludes with the revelation of the manipulation of human history by Tralfamadorian aliens sending messages to one of their kind stranded on Titan. One leading character has an extemporal viewpoint from which all moments appear co-existent—a theme which crops up again, along with the Tralfamadorians, in…SlaughterhouseFive” (Clute & Nicholls, 1289). “First Printing” stated on copyright page. Initially issued in wrappers by Dell in 1959. 100 Best Novels 31. Ink note on dust jacket front flap. Book with slight wear to cloth spine ends, inner hinges expertly reinforced; bright dust jacket with one short closed tear along front spine seam, mild wear to faintly toned spine. Near-fine condition. “If It Weren’t For The People… The World Would Be An Engineer’s Paradise” 28VONNEGUT, Kurt. Player Piano. New York, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $4000 First edition of Vonnegut’s first novel, an “increasingly prescient,” darkly humorous dystopia. A “dystopia of automation, Player Piano… describes the dereliction of the quality of life by the progressive surrender of production and political decision to machines. The mixture of heavy irony, bordering on black humor, and unashamed sentimentality displayed in the novel became the hallmark of Kurt Vonnegut’s work” (Clute & Nicholls, 1289). “The story… is increasingly prescient as globalism triumphs” (Anatomy of Wonder II-1202). This first edition numbered 7600 copies “and is accordingly difficult to find today” (Reed, 41). Bruccoli & Clark I:395. Currey, 407. Book with offsetting from tape to pastedowns and boards; dust jacket with very mild soiling, toning to spine and along flap folds. A very nice copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 24 “At The Head Of A Tradition”: First Edition Of Ray Bradbury’s First Book, Signed By Him 30BRADBURY, Ray. Dark Carnival. Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $6800 First edition of Bradbury’s important first book, boldly signed by the author. The legendary Bradbury was “as influenced by George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare as he was by Jules Verne… Bradbury’s poetically drawn and atmospheric fictions—horror, fantasy, shadowy American gothics—explored life’s secret corners” (Los Angeles Times). The 27 stories collected in Dark Carnival mark Bradbury’s departure from publishing in pulp magazines. Their “stylistic deftness… stands at the head of a tradition in modern horror fiction” (Barron 4-24). “Evocative, poetic and suffused with youthful wonder, Bradbury’s tales broke with pulp conventions in their style and approach to the fantastic… Collected in his first book Dark Carnival… they mesh to form a small-town landscape in which the magic possibilities of ordinary life and the banality of the fantastic are indistinguishable from one another” (Clute & Grant, 132). Book in fine condition, in an extremely good dust jacket with minor rubbing to extremities. An attractive signed copy. “This Dandelion!”: Dandelion Wine, Colorfully Inscribed By Ray Bradbury With A Sketch Of A Dandelion 31BRADBURY, Ray. Dandelion Wine. Garden City, 1957. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $4900 First edition of Bradbury’s semi-autobiographical novel, boldly inscribed by him using several colors of pencil: “For Matthew Stiller!?!!! This dandelion! [sketch of dandelion] With good wishes! from Ray Bradbury, Oct. 4, ‘92.” “Dandelion Wine is one of Bradbury’s autobiographical fantasies, a novel that fully embodies Bradbury’s love for creating eccentric characters and exploring their lives. The novel is more autobiographical than fantasy (unlike its companion, Something Wicked This Way Comes), with the majority of events being daily moments of life in the Midwest in the late 1920s. The main character, Douglas Spaulding, is based on Bradbury… Considered one of Bradbury’s strongest works, the novel has received a good deal of acclaim and critical attention” (Reid, 63). Currey, 44. Book and dust jacket near-fine. An excellent inscribed copy.
25 LITERATURE “Her Whole Life Had Been A Long And Easy Dream To Lull Her Helplessly Into This Waking Nightmare” 32KING, Stephen. The Shining. Garden City, 1977. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $4000 First edition of King’s third novel, a “masterwork, a bold product of an original vision.” Inspired by Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death,” King’s first hardcover bestseller is “his consummate ghostly tale” about “the haunted house to end all haunted houses” (Underwood & Miller, 174, 184). “The fact is that The Shining is a masterwork, a bold product of an original vision, a novel of astonishing passion, urgency, tenderness, understanding, and invention… In its uniting of an almost bruising literary power, a deep sensitivity to individual experience, and its operatic convictions, it is a very significant work of art” (Peter Straub). Basis for the 1980 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicolson and Shelley Duvall; later made into a 1997 TV mini-series starring Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay, with a cameo appearance by King himself. Book in fine condition; dust jacket about-fine, back panel with inked date in one corner, spine with slight toning and traces of wear to foot. An unusually nice copy. “When Men Do It In Wartime, They Give Them Medals, He Thought” 33KING, Stephen. The Dead Zone. New York, 1979. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $3200 First edition of King’s provocative political thriller, inscribed and signed by King, “For Jake—Good wishes, Stephen King 8/22/80.” “Steeped in the political consciousness of postVietnam America, The Dead Zone is a riff on the old axiom that evil thrives when good men do nothing” (Fantasy and Horror 6-195). Basis for the 1983 film by director David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, and for the long-running television series starring Anthony Michael Hall. Viking officially released this work in August 1979. First printing, with “First published in 1979 by The Viking Press” and no additional printings on the copyright page. Brooks A8.1. Underwood & Miller 8a. Anatomy of Wonder II:600. Horror Literature 4-130. A fine inscribed copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 26 “Once There Was A Little Bunny Who Wanted To Run Away” First edition of Brown and Hurd’s perennial favorite about a little bunny who wanted to run away, a lovely copy in the scarce original dust jacket. “In a many-faceted, brief, but remarkable career, Brown pioneered in the writing of books for the nursery school ages; authored more than 100 volumes including the classic Runaway Bunny (1942) and Goodnight Moon (1947); served as a bridge between the worlds of publishing, progressive education, and the experimental arts of the 1930s and 1940s; and did much to make children’s literature a vital creative enterprise in her own time and afterward” (Silvey, 95). “Brown and Clement Hurd teamed up for a second time with The Runaway Bunny, in 1942. The hide-and-seek tale of a mother rabbit and her baby bunny was based on a medieval Provençal ballad. (Brown had spent two years at a Swiss boarding school, and her French was excellent)” (Vanity Fair, December 2000, pp. 176-78). In the spring of 1941 Brown turned in her manuscript, and her editor loved it—except for the ending. After giving it some thought, Brown sent an additional line via telegraph, the final line of the finished book, “a simple addition that summed up the gentle current of love and humor throughout the book” (VF, 178): “’Have a carrot,’ said the mother bunny.” Book beautiful and about-fine, with one small bunny colored in; rare unrestored dust jacket with wear to spine, including loss of most of title lettering, toning to rear panel, front panel particularly bright and fresh. An excellent and desirable copy of this children’s classic. 34BROWN, Margaret Wise; HURD, Clement, illustrator. The Runaway Bunny. New York and London, 1942. Oblong octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $32,000
27 LITERATURE Rare first edition, presentation copy, of Silverstein’s first collection of witty and whimsical poetry, warmly inscribed by him with eleven lines of humorous verse “Nothing Rhymes,” signed by him with, with a drawing of a hand holding a pen finishing the signature. “The poems, ranging from serious to silly, from philosophical to ridiculous, allow the reader or listener—the rhyme and rhythm… make them perfect for reading aloud—to discover Silverstein’s greatest gift: his ability to understand the fears and wishes and silliness of children” (Silvey, 602). The lengthy, warm inscription reads (in Silverstein’s characteristic all-caps lettering): “Nothing Rhymes. Nothing rhymes with Mercier / If you pronounce it Frenchly / If you’d pronounce it ‘Merican / You’d help me most immensely / ‘Cause then I’d write some versier / That would be terse or tersier / Cursory or cursier / Or maybe worse or worsier / So ‘Fol-de-rool, Fol-de-ray.’ / What the hell do you expect— / Nothing rhymes with Mercier / Love, Shel.” Cotsen 10243. The “Mercier” of the inscription perhaps refers to Jean Mercier, the children’s book editor of Publisher’s Weekly, which printed Mercier’s interview with Silverstein in 1975. Mild toning to cloth edges; dust jacket crisp but toned with a bit of soiling to rear panel. Rare and desirable with an original autograph poem signed by Silverstein. “What The Hell Do You Expect—Nothing Rhymes With Mercier” 35SILVERSTEIN, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends. New York, 1974. Small quarto, original brown cloth, dust jacket. $16,500
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 28 Beautiful Deluxe Illustrated Editions Of Tolkien’s Hobbit And Lord Of The Rings Deluxe limited editions, each one of 1750 copies, of these sumptuous Folio Society productions, in striking bindings and slipcases by Smith Settle of Otley, Yorkshire. The Folio Society’s illustrated edition of the Lord of the Rings was the first illustrated edition of that work when initially published in 1977. The illustrations themselves were done by Eric Fraser from original drawings by Ingahild Grathmer, the pseudonym of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. The queen initially sent the illustrations to Tolkien in the early 1970s: Tolkien was taken with them, finding their style similar to his own. Margrethe’s artistic pursuits are many, and she is particularly well-known for her costume and scenery designs for ballet and drama productions in Denmark. The Folio Society edition of The Lord of the Rings was first published in 1977; their edition of The Hobbit, with illustrations by Eric Fraser, followed in 1979. Hammond A3.u, A5l. Fine condition. 36TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit. WITH: The Lord of the Rings. Three volumes. London, 200102. Together, Four volumes. Tall octavo, original half Wassa goatskin with hand-woven Indian silk boards, morocco-gilt slipcases. $8000
29 LITERATURE “An Honorable Place In Any Library Of Children’s Books” 38KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book. London and New York, 1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, original giltstamped pictorial blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $6900 First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete with adventure and excitement.” “Among the 15 stories in [these volumes] are some of Kipling’s most memorable narratives” (Abraham, 36). “The child who has never run with Mowgli’s wolf pack, or stood with Parnesius and Pertinax to defend the Northern Wall… has missed something that he will not get from any other writer” (Carpenter & Prichard, 297). Illustrated largely by W. H. Drake and Kipling’s father, J. Lockwood Kipling, “this most desirable pair… will always fill an honorable place in any library of children’s books” (Quayle 87). “Of the seven stories and seven poems comprising The Jungle Book, only the stories had previously appeared in periodicals (in 1893 and 1894), and when collected here, each story had an additional verse heading appended.” With numerous in-text and 20 full-page illustrations including frontispiece. First English edition of Second Jungle Book issued only three days after the American edition. Without rarely found dust jackets. Livingston 104, 116. Light scattered foxing to interiors, only slight rubbing and toning to spines, gilt bright. A handsome set in extremely good condition. First Edition Of The Story Of Doctor Dolittle, Inscribed By Hugh Lofting—The Copy Of Horn Book Founder Bertha Mahoney Miller 37LOFTING, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle. New York, 1920. Octavo, original bluestamped orange cloth, custom clamshell box. $7800 First edition of the first Doctor Dolittle title, with color frontispiece, two plates, and 30 in-text blackand-white illustrations, inscribed: “Sincerely Yours, Hugh Lofting. Jan. 15 21.” The copy of Bertha Mahoney Miller, founder and editor of The Horn Book Magazine. “Creator of the most famous vet of all time (pace James Herriot)—and what a wonderfully sane loony Dr. Doolittle is. The books are absolutely irresistible and deathless—as well as being immensely stylish… Very much collected, as is right and proper” (Connolly, Children’s Modern First Editions, 189). Without scarce original dust jacket. With the posthumous bookplate of Bertha Mahoney Miller, who founded The Horn Book Magazine, the first periodical to deal only with children’s literature. Faint child’s signature. Only slight wear to bright original cloth. A scarce nearfine inscribed copy with an interesting provenance.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 30 “I, Tiberius Claudius… Am Now About To Write This Strange History Of My Life” 39GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius. London, 1934. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $5500 First edition of Graves’ most famous novel, a very nice copy in the original dust jacket. Drawing from such ancient sources as Tacitus and Suetonius, Graves created the secret “autobiography” of Claudius, narrated “in the imaginatively and idiosyncratically conceived persona of the emperor” (Drabble, 412). “In I, Claudius and its successor, Claudius the God, Robert Graves wrote two of the most resonant historical novels of the century… Graves displays a scholarly and imaginative understanding of the mores and ethos of the Roman world, and sensationalizes his material only as much as must be expected from a novelist with a living to earn… Graves’ people are real Romans, and Claudius’ autobiography is credible as the product of a Roman mind” (Parker, 175). Both the Modern Library and Time magazine named the book one of their 100 Best Novels, and the BBC dramatized it in 1976 with Derek Jacobi as the lead. Book with spine foot bumped and minor spotting to text block edges; dust jacket with faint toning to spine, light edge wear, and a small nick to upper edge of front panel. A very good copy. “One Of The World’s Literary Masterpieces” 40CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim, A Tale. Edinburgh and London, 1900. Octavo, original green cloth, custom clamshell box. $5500 First edition, first issue, of Conrad’s brilliant exploration of morality and the torment of guilt, “second only to Heart of Darkness in renown,” in the original cloth. To critic Cedric Watts, Conrad’s Lord Jim is “one of the world’s literary masterpieces… a book of the rare literary quality of Lord Jim is something to receive with gratitude and joy.” (New York Times Book Review). “Second only to Heart of Darkness in renown” (Joseph Conrad Companion), Lord Jim is “the first full-length work of Conrad’s artistic maturity… the novel is, moreover, deeply personal, with roots in Conrad’s past… [and] has retained its place as one of Conrad’s most widely enjoyed and studied books. It has remained so for the brilliance of its technical innovations as well.” Cagle A5.a. Bookplate of noted violinist and conductor Efrem Zimbalist. Scattered light foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves; cloth with mild soiling to spine and rear panel, spine a bit toned. A very nice copy.
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